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  • Camille Paglia Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Charles Dickens Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Billie Holiday Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Bobby Vinton Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Will Durant Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Bob Geldof Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Carl Rowan My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Orson Welles My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Bob Hope My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Ben Foster My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is kinda funny. I think I'm sort of ridiculous.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Bode Miller My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Anthony Doerr My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Jackie Chan My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. [Listing what body parts he has broken]
    Jackie Chan
    Actor, stuntman and kung fu expert from Hong Kong (1954 - )
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  • Benny Blanco My studio's always in my house. I want to wake up and be like, 'You know I'm gonna make music today in my underwear. You know what, I'm gonna be in my pajamas. You know what, I'm actually just gonna stay inside for the next three days so I can make music.'
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Bethany Mota My viewers actually know about my little routine for spraying perfume. I put it on my wrists and rub them together, then I spray a little bit on my neck and three spritzes in front of me and then I shimmy through them.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • H. G. Bohn Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.
    H. G. Bohn
    British publisher
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  • Edward Everett Hale Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
    Edward Everett Hale
    American author, historian, and Unitarian minister (0 - 1909)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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